Cheese-cutting device



Jan. 31, 1928.

B. J. RABIN CHEESE CUTTING DEVICE Filed Feb. 27. 1925 X WE/ ATTORNEYPatented Jan. 31, 1928.

BENJAMIN J. RABIN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

CHEESE-CUTTING DEVICE.

Application filed February This cutting invention relates to apparatusfor soft cylindrical bodies, such as cheeses, into segment portions ofuniform weight and has as one of its features the tnrovision of a simpleeasily operated device to attaining such results.

it well known in the art that thin wires have been used as the cuttingelements, these wires being tensionally strained to act effectively andit is further known that such wires frequently break while being usedfor cutting semi-hard cheese causing delay and vexation.

In order to overcome the tendency of disruption of the wires, springshave been used at the ends of the wires to absorb a portion of theirstress when bent into a catenary form during operation, but suchexpedients in themselves have proven ineffective and particularly so forcutting Roquefort cheese.

It is therefore an object to provide an apparatus using wires as cuttersand to so mount the wires that breakage is practically eliminated.

It is a further object to provide in an apparatus using wires ascutters, adjustable means for varying the angular relation of the wiresto produce cuts of uniform, bulk or weight though of varying dimensions.

These aims and objects are accomplished by the novel construction andcombination of parts, hereinafter described and shown in theaccompanying drawing, forming a mate rial part of this disclosure, andin which Figure 1 is a top plan view of an embodiment of the invention,the cutter head suspending elements being omitted.

Figure 2 a front clevational. view showing a complete assemblage of thesame, parts being in section to disclose the structure.

Figure 3 is a detail, and

Figure 4c is a plan View of a modification.

The apparatus as shown on the drawing coumrises a rigid base plate 10having at its center a block 11 containing radial grooves. 12 in itsface or upper surface on which may be placed a cheese 13 of the usualsquat cylindrical shape.

A pair of upright standards 14, are firmly secured in the base 10 andslidably mount-ed on the standards is a frame generically denoted by thenumeral 15, comprised of upper cross bars 16 secured by fastenings 17 totransverse bars 18 having cross members 19.

27, 1925. Serial no. 11,961.

This frame is pendantly si'ipported by eyes 20 in which are engagedflexible ele inents21 leading from the four corners of the frame to aring in turn supported by elements 23, connected to a cable 24:, trainedover sheave pulleys and 25, the depending end of the cable beingattached to a coiniter-weight not shown.

Guided by the pins 17, which project downward from. the frame, is a ring27 held against the urulerside oi the frame members 18 and secured atequal distances apart are a plurality of strong but fine wires 28crossing each other at the center of the apparatus and having theiropposite ends. secured in eyes 29 formed on bolts 30 which pass throughthe ring at diametrically opposite points, to be encircled coiledcompression springs 3lheld stressed by thumb nuts 32 thread-ed on theprojecting ends of the bolts, as best seen in Fig. 3.

A second ring 33 is held removably against the under surfaces of thebars 18 and elements 19, this ring being provided in its (iii lower edgewith slots 3% acting as guides and supports for the wires 28, taking thethrust and strain of cut-ting and preventing breakage as experience hasdemonstrated.

The slot-s 3st are spaced equidistant so that when a cheese having a.circular cross section is out, the segments will be of equal size andhence of substantially equal weight. However, if a cheese be oval orirregular in cross section instead of circular, then ring 33 may besubstituted for ring 33. Ring 33 is provided with slots 34: spacedunequally so that the angular relation of the wires in one direction,may differ from the angular relation in another direction in such a waythat while the segments cut from the cheese may vary in size, they willbe substantially equal in weight. In practice, a variety of rings 33 maybe kept on hand, each having its slots 234i; dii'i'erently spaced.

In operation, the proper ring 33 or ring 33 is attached to the frame andthe wires placed in slots 34, the cheese 13 is placed substantiallyconcentric on the block 11, the cutter head being at that time raised onthe standards 14-; thereafter pressure is applied on the frame, forcingthe wires to enter and pass through the cheese eventually entering thegrooves 12 in the block.

Due to th P es ure app d y the 1111161 guiding ring 33, the strain 011the cutting wires is equalized, making an effective and substantiallyunbreakable slicing apparatus for the purpose indicated.

Although I have described my in1provements with considerable detail andwith respect to certain particular forms of my invention, I do notdesire to be limited to such details since many changes andmodifications may well be made without departing'i'rom the spirit andscope of my invention in its broadest aspect. i

Having thus described my invention what I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a cutting apparatus, a head composed. oi bars arranged in themanner of an open frame and carrying relatively large and small rings,cutting wires fixed at their ends in the larger ring to extenddiametrically across, said wires being guided and pressed by the smallerring at points intermediate their lengths, and means for resilientlytensioning each of said wires, said means being independentlyadjustable.

2. A cheese cutting apparatus to divide thecheese into segmentalportions of ap proximately equal bulk simultaneously, comprising a basehaving oll'set standards, a head slid-able 0n the standards, a ringlixcd on said head, a plurality oi cutting wires fixed in said ring atequal distances apart and crossing each other at the center, andselective means intermediate the lengths oi? said wires to alter theangular relation the-reel, said means also serving to prevent breakageof said Wires.

3; Thecombination in a cutting apparatus of avertically movahly head, alarge ring :[izaed to saidhead, cutting wires iixed at their endsin saidring to extend diametrically across, and. selective means intermediatethe lengths of said wires adapted to guide the wires to produce segmentself equal bulk though oi iu'uiqual dimensions of an article to bedivided.

l. The con'ibination with a cutter head having 'adial cutting wires ofselective means intermediate the length of said wires adaptedtempo'arily to alter the angular relation oil. said wires.

Signed at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York this5th day of February 1925.

BENJAMIN J. ltiililh'.

